A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes
Conned out of $1500 by a trio of wanted studs, Jackson asks his brother for help—but his brother is a informant to Harlem’s deadly detective duo Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones.
Conned out of $1500 by a trio of wanted studs, Jackson asks his brother for help—but his brother is a informant to Harlem’s deadly detective duo Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones.
The investigation of a deadly alien artifact on the Moon leaves its investigators shattered, broken men—until the perfect man is found to plumb its mysteries.
When his cat is slain by a hit-and-run driver, Joseph Meaker transforms from serene intellectual to crazed killer as he sets out to have his revenge.
Escaped convict Tim Sunblade and tramp call-girl Virginia, trapped in a love/hate relationship, execute the perfect job: an armored truck heist that’ll make them rich…
In the midst of depression brought on by the death of his wife, aging Hollywood star Clay Stuart falls into an obsessive lust for a dangerous young woman…
To save an innocent man, Shell Scott goes deep undercover at a gangster’s masquerade ball. Let’s just hope for his sake they don’t Kill the Clown.
Living in squalid disgrace, a former crooked cop may have struck it big: the local hood hires him as protection, then the cops hire him to bring in the local hood…
For twelve long years they remembered. For twelve long years they plotted. And now Captain Driscoll was going to pay for what he had done to them during the war.
He bruised their mouths with a brutal kiss and then he strangled them… slowly. Every one of them was young and lovely, every one of them a cop’s wife or sweetheart.
Everyman Robert Neville is the last surviving human on an Earth overrun by vampires, hordes of living undead spawned by bacterial warfare. Matheson’s most famous work.
Pregnant policeman’s wife is nabbed along with the loot following a massive department-store heist; she’s now a hostage, as her husband fights against time to find her.